SingularityNET, led by renowned computer scientist Dr. Ben Goertzel, has announced the recipients of over $1 million in grants aimed at accelerating the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity. The initiative, part of SingularityNET’s AI innovation fund DeepFunding, attracted a diverse pool of global talent, with winners from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America.
The grants were awarded across 18 categories, supporting projects that integrate AI research with the OpenCog Hyperon framework on SingularityNET’s decentralized AI platform. Key recipients include Elija Perrier from Australia, who secured $80,000 for research on quantum computing’s role in AGI, and UK-based Rob Freeman, who received $80,000 for work in neuro-symbolic deep neural network architectures.
Dr. Goertzel said the importance of fostering open and collaborative AGI research, noting that the initiative aims to ensure AGI development remains ethical, inclusive, and globally distributed. He highlighted that the winning proposals reflect exceptional creativity and technical expertise, with potential to drive significant advancements in AI.
DeepFunding’s selection process prioritized projects that demonstrated technical rigor, alignment with SingularityNET’s technology stack, and contributions to AGI development. The initiative aims to catalyze an ecosystem where innovative research meets decentralized AI infrastructure, fostering a transparent and democratic path toward AGI.
SingularityNET remains committed to advancing open AI systems that align with human values.
GLOBAL GRANT WINNERS
Utilize LLMs for modeling within MOSES
Patrick Nercessian (USA) Direct the MOSES Evolutionary Exploration via LLMs Awarded $60,000
Framework for evaluating approaches to attention allocation
Dwane van der Sluis (UK) NACE inspired attention evaluation framework Awarded $11,250
Simuli Inc. Dr Rachel St.Clair, PhD (USA) SYNAPSE: Systematic Neural-Symbolic Attn and Eval Awarded $30,000
AGI Related Hardware
Simuli Inc. Dr Rachel St.Clair, PhD (USA)
Design for Cryptocurrency Mining and AI Processing Awarded $80,000
Review of Quantum Computing Technologies
M. T. Bennett (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
From Classical AGI on Quantum HW to Native QAGI Awarded $80,000
Neuro-symbolic DNN Architectures
Rob Freeman Neurosymbolics from Chaos in Language Models Awarded $80,000
Nils Kakoseos Ternary Sheaf Network (Sweden) – Awarded $70,000
Create Corpus for NL-to-MeTTa LLM
Seb Wiechers (The Netherlands) Large MeTTa corpus for LLM fine-tuning Awarded $27,000
Develop a Framework for AGI Motivation Systems
Anna Mikeda Modular Adaptive Goal and Utility System (MAGUS) (Portugal) Awarded $20,000
Gabriel Axel Montes Neurotech Controls for AGI Motivational Framework (USA) Awarded $20,000
Implement Clustering Heuristics in MeTTa
Ramin Barati Unsupervised Learning (The Netherlands) Awarded $15,000
Evolutionary Algorithms for Training Transformers and other DNNs
Patrick Nercessian Evolving DNN Architectures (USA) Awarded $40,000
Develop Interesting Demos in MeTTa
BHouwens Chimera: Evolving Software (USA) Awarded $25,000
PhilipeSantos Procedurally Generated Interactive Experience (São Paulo, Brazil) Awarded $15,000
Bowen Xu MeTTa Demo: Sequence Learning (USA) Awarded $25,000
Robert Haas Knowledge Graph Workflows (Austria) Awarded $25,000
Golang SDK Development for SingularityNET AI Marketplace
maldybaevr Golang SingularityNET SDK (Russia) Awarded $60,000
Development of a Cardano-Based MultiParty Escrow (MPE) System
Manu Gunther TxPipe TxPipe MultiParty Escrow (Argentina) Awarded $36,000
